HowTo Load RDF From The Web

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Load RDF from the Web

RDF can be loading from web via a URI using the LoadFromUri() extension method. This method exists for both IGraph and ITripleStore e.g.

IGraph g = new Graph();
g.LoadFromUri(new Uri("http://example.org/file.rdf"));

Loading in a Specific Format

Occasionally some server may misinterpret the Accept header that dotNetRDF normally uses and return a HTML page instead of a RDF graph. You can force the loader to attempt to retrieve RDF in a specific format by specifying the parser you want to use e.g.

IGraph g = new Graph();
g.LoadFromUri(new Uri("http://example.org/file.rdf"), new TurtleParser());

Learn more by reading the Reading RDF documentation.